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CUFF AND WR'ISTBAND FOR SHIRTS.

No. 315,174. Patented Apr. 7, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH B. SEE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CUFF AND WRISTBA ND FOR SHIRTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,174, dated April 7, 1885.

Application filed May 28, 1884. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. SEE, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuffs and Wristbands of Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cuffs and bands which are attached or to be attached to shirtsleeves. Such cuffs and bands as now manufactured are subject to rapid wear at the edges and become frayed and worn long before the cuff or band is otherwise worn out. Such frayed cuffs or bands entail great annoyance to the wearer, and render it necessary to trim off after each laundering the rough and ragged edge, which will again appear as soon as the cuff or band becomes moist by perspiration. No way of obviating these annoyances has heretofore been possible, except to purchase new cuffs or to have new bands put on the shirt-sleeves, and the putting on of new bands is objectionable, because the muslin of the sleeves has become considerably weakened by wear and laundering, and islialole to crack or break away from the new material attached to the sleeves.

My invention consists in the combination, with a cuff or shirt wristband having a finished edge, of a supplemental cuff or band applied to and covering both theinner and outer sides of the cuff or wristband at the edge portion thereof, and secured by stitching through the cuff or wristband and the supplemental cuff or band, as more fully hereinafter described. The principal wear then comes on the supplemental cuff or band, and when the latter is worn out it can be easily removed, leaving the cuff or band in a perfect state of preservation and capable of enduring wear as long as any ordinary cuff or band.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a shirt-band having my supplemental band applied thereto. Fig. 2 represents a cuff having supplemental cuffs applied to it. Fig. 3 represents two pieces of which the supplemental end or band may be composed, and Figs. 4. and 5 are sectional views representing a portion of a cuff or band and a supplemental cuff or band applied thereto.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates aportion of a'shirt-sleeve, and B designates the wristband thereof, which is made and applied in the usual way. The edge portion of the band usually becomes worn out, while the remainder of the band and the sleeve are capable of longer wear. The gathering of the single thickness of muslin where the band is joined to the sleeve is the next weakest spot, and to rip off the band and sew on a new one is hazardous and uncertain, because theinuslin where newly gathered and sewed will break away from the new and strong band so soon as to render the new band useless.

I apply a supplemental band, C, to the band B. This supplemental band is smaller in size but corresponds in shape to the edge of the old band and takes all wear. WVhen it wears out it can be taken off, leaving the band B in a new and perfect state and capable of enduring the same wear as an ordinary eufi" or band.

In Fig. 2 I have represented a cuff, B, having supplemental cufis 0 applied to it, the cuff being capable of wear either edge outward. WVhen the supplemental cuffs wear out, they may be easily removed, leaving the edges of the cuff B in a new and perfect state for further wear.

Both the wristband and cuff shownin Figs. 1 and 2 have a finished edge, and near that edge is a line of stitching forsecuring together the several thicknesses of material of which the band and cuff are composed. This line of stitching is indicated by a dotted line at that part of Figs. 1 and 2 where the supplemental band or cuff is broken away and becomes visible when the supplemental band or cuff is removed.

In Fig.3 I have shown two pieces from which my supplemental cuff or band may be made, or there may be more than two pieces of like shape. These pieces may be sewed together-around their edges which are adjacent in the drawings, and the supplemental cuff or band O'may then be applied as shown in Fig. 4, the seam a coming on the inner side of the cuff orband B, and the edges of the supplemental cuff or band being turned in and secured to the cuff or band by a line of stitch- I cuff or band from a single piece and apply it wristband at the edge portion thereof, and seas shown in Fig. 5 to the cuff or band.

cured by stitching through the cuff or wrist- :0 What I claim as my invention, and desire to band and the supplemental cuff or band, subsecure by Letters Patent, is stantially as herein described. 5 The combination, with aeuff or shirt-wrist- JOSEPH B. SEE. band having a finished edge, of a supple- Witnesses:

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FREDK. HAYNES.

both the inner and outer sides of the cuff or 

